I got squashed up close and personal to a poster at Holborn station during rush-hour and got the idea for an ongoing photo project for me. I found that the eyes in the advertising posters were often quite interesting and decided to start capturing them. Keep checking back as the collection of this flickr set [...]
Wordle is a great tool for analysing text and surfacing keywords in a very visual way. I could imagine that it would be handy for creatives to run clients materials through to pull out messages and issues. However for some boring clients I’ve noticed that the Wordle cluster has been incorporated into the finished artwork. [...]
35 social media KPIs to help measure engagement | Blog | Econsultancy MediaShift . Harold Evans Sees Bright Future for Print-on-Demand Newspapers | PBS Microsoft Tortures Little Kids With Bing Jingle – very disturbing The Open Graph API: What Does It Mean? Yeah, I’d Like Metered Broadband, Too — If It Were Actually Metered More [...]
Back in December last year, I light-heartedly posted about class and the internet. Part of this was inspired by an old article written in The Sun just before I joined Yahoo! back in 2005 (If you Yahoo, you’re chav by Harry Macadam February 3, 2005). But there is now very real digital ghettoes. It makes [...]
Should Ask.com Sell Out Now? | Search Engine Journal – Yes it should. UK journalists on Twitter Update | PRBLOGGER.COM SEO for non-experts: what you need to know | Mark Pack twtvite :: create and find Tweetups in your town. BBC Radio 4 Programmes – The Media Show Microsoft’s results: online, it’s losing more money than before [...]
I remember hearing how few companies | brands listed on the Dow Jones over the past 50 years are still going, so I was surprised to find out Tongrentang which has been successfully in business for almost four centuries. The Chinese medicine company enjoyed a royal warrant from the Qing dynasty until their overthrow in [...]
Taste the Rainbow: Cigarette Makers’ Colorful Answer to FDA Packaging Regs | Advertising, Branding, and Marketing | Fast Company – tobacco companies use visual cues to make up for not being able to bill cigarettes as light, mild or low tar. PC vs. Mac deathmatch: Snow Leopard beats Windows 7 | Mac – InfoWorld 5 [...]
By the end of September I started to notice a surge in Christmas products, from tinsel to specially-packaged foodstuffs in supermarkets near my office and my home. I picked up some of the packages in the store out of curiosity and noticed that some of the sell-by dates on the items were in early and [...]
Coffee machine, originally uploaded by renaissancechambara. I was in Progresso coffee bar at the Thomas Neal centre. Their expresso machine has this fantastic fascia which looks like a mixture of 50′s Americana with a touch of golden-age Detroit motor industry. So I thought I would share it with y’all.
FeverBee: The Usual Errors From The Big Brands MediaPost Publications Lancome Launches IPhone App And Blog 10/22/2009 A Few Good Kids? | Mother Jones – interesting how marketing data is being used. It seems that more work needs to be done on the creative and the approach Superfusion: How China and America Became One Economy. [...]
Trendwatching.com came up with an interesting concept of nowism. Trendwatching describes it as: “Consumers’ ingrained* lust for instant gratification is being satisfied by a host of novel, important (offline and online) real-time products, services and experiences. Consumers are also feverishly contributing to the real-time content avalanche that’s building as we speak. As a result, expect [...]
I presented earlier at Social Media in Business (SMiB). Here is a link to the slides on Slideshare. If you want to know more feel free to drop me a line.
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Just under a year ago I wrote a blog post highlighting 29 not-very-technical things that every PR person should know, which started a discussion about what the new PR person would look like. At the time I deliberately focused on ‘not-very-technical’ things because PR people generally aren’t that technical or they would be doing proper [...]
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